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... close more firmly , his breathing quicken , his brow knit , and his hand clench . He was no ordinary reader of newspapers , that was plain - even to the listless smoker , who began to eye him with curiosity and attention , and was fain ...
... close more firmly , his breathing quicken , his brow knit , and his hand clench . He was no ordinary reader of newspapers , that was plain - even to the listless smoker , who began to eye him with curiosity and attention , and was fain ...
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... close at hand , beyond the clump of trees yonder , down in the churchyard at Wymerton . As she saw her father's tears fall , Clara too began to weep bitterly ; a happy circumstance , which served to recall him to himself ; and in the ...
... close at hand , beyond the clump of trees yonder , down in the churchyard at Wymerton . As she saw her father's tears fall , Clara too began to weep bitterly ; a happy circumstance , which served to recall him to himself ; and in the ...
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... close up in the reeds , " laughed Windlesham ; " and I had a near view of the ladye fair long before she stepped so daintily on board , and went dancing away over the glassy swell to Desenzano . Come , Ingram , confess you thought her ...
... close up in the reeds , " laughed Windlesham ; " and I had a near view of the ladye fair long before she stepped so daintily on board , and went dancing away over the glassy swell to Desenzano . Come , Ingram , confess you thought her ...
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... Close his eyes as he would , they were obstinate in following still across the heaving waters of Garda , the little boat in which Clara Jerningham had left the Albergo yesterday . Stop his ears as he would , there was no stopping the ...
... Close his eyes as he would , they were obstinate in following still across the heaving waters of Garda , the little boat in which Clara Jerningham had left the Albergo yesterday . Stop his ears as he would , there was no stopping the ...
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... close dirty court in the manufacturing town where I was born . A great reader of the Bible was this old cobbler ; few men I have come across con- trived to put as much of that book into their lives as he . It was an inland town we lived ...
... close dirty court in the manufacturing town where I was born . A great reader of the Bible was this old cobbler ; few men I have come across con- trived to put as much of that book into their lives as he . It was an inland town we lived ...
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Page 76 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth : which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Page 280 - But though he refused to talk of it to the butler, and though it was some time before he could make up his mind to talk of it at all, he could not refrain himself, and at last let Clara know herself the impression her music had made on him. " I would gi